"The world holds two classes of
men -- intelligent menwithout religion, and religious men without intelligence."[Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri (973-1057; Syrian
poet)]

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him
is that basically he's an underachiever.-- Woody Allen, from the final monologue in his film, Love and Death (Thanks,
Geof!)

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered
into it by all the organized hustles.-- Woody Allen, Rolling Stone, 1987

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there
may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that
there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.-- Woody Allen, "The Early Essays," Without Feathers

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows
whether it's not just a trick of the devil.--
Jean Anouilh, the Archbishop, in The Lark

If forgers and malefactors are put
to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."Thomas
Aquinas (1225-1274), Summa Theologica

Humanity has the stars in
its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.Isaac
Asimov

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save
people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and
righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.-- Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've
been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because
it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided
that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that
God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.-- Isaac Asimov, in "Free Inquiry", Spring 1982,
vol.2 no.2, p. 9

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of
dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to
be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.--Isaac Asimov, "On Religiosity," Free Inquiry

Often
a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits
of the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience.
It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that
what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which
people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn. - St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim

" ... it is not easy
to believe that the gods possess any underground dwelling where the souls collect."

ausanias, Description of Greece
3.25.5

B

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.-- Mikhail Bakunin (attributed:
source unknown)

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists
precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and
loves it.-- Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State, from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master
in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.-- Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1871), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary
Of Quotations

Theology is the science of the divine lie-- Mikhail Bakunin, from
George Seldes, ed., The Great Quotations

Evangelist, n: A bearer of good
tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbours.Ambrose
Bierce

Faith, n. Belief without evidence
in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,
1911

Infidel, n: In New York, one who
does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ocean, n: A body of water occupying
2/3 of a world made for man -- who has no gills."Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Pray: To ask that the laws of the
universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.Ambrose Bierce

Religion, n: A daughter of Hope
and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the Nature of the Unknowable.Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Scriptures: The sacred books of
our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.Ambrose Bierce

Accordingly, France Had Voltaire,
and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David
Hume:a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure
of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis
and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

They
call him benevolent in words, but they do not mean that he is so in reality.... For if they did, they would recognise that
the dictates of religion could be neither more nor less than the dictates of utility:not a little different: not a little less or more. But the case is, that on a thousand occasions, they turn their backs
on the principle of utility

Bentham,
id. 86.

If I had to choose a religion, the
sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."Napoleon Bonaparte

The idea that a good God would send
people to a burning Hell is utterlydamnable to me. The ravings of insanity! Superstition gone to seed!I don't want
to have anything to do with such a God. No avengingJewish God, no satanic devil, no fiery hell is of any interest to me."Luther
Burbank, address to Science League of San Francisco, Dec. 1924

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History aside, the almost universal
opinion that one's own religious convictions are the reasoned outcome of a dispassionate evaluation of all the major alternatives
is almost demonstrably false for humanity in general. If that really were the genesis of most people's convictions, then one
wouldexpect the major faiths to be distributed more or less randomly or evenly over the globe. But in fact they show a
very strong tendency to cluster...which illustrates what we all suspected anyway: that social forces are the primary determinants
of religious belief for people in general. To decide scientific questions by appeal to religious orthodoxy would therefore
be to put socialforces in place of empirical evidence...Paul Churchland,"_Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary
Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind{jk’s philosophy professor, Graduate
Studies, U of Manitoba, 1970)

Sensible and responsible women
do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned
long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.Grover Cleveland, 1905

The belief in a supernatural
source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph Conrad

D

I had no intention to write atheistic, but I own that I cannot see as plainly as
others do, and I should wish to do, the evidence of beneficence and design on all sides as there seems to be too much misery
in the world.I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent god would have designedly
created the Ignomonidi to feed inside the body of a caterpillar or that the cat should play with mice.

Charles Darwin in a letter to Prof. Asa Gray.

Let appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against
Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination
of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. It has, therefore, been always my object to avoid writing
on religion, and I have confined myself.

Charles
Darwin to Edward Aveling. letter 1880

I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of
the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends,
will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine."Charles Darwin

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that
a cat should play with mice.—Charles Darwin

I believe the spreading of
Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.Charles Dickens

To prove the Gospels by a
miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature."Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Denis Diderot

If God were suddenly condemned
to live the life which he has inflicted upon men, He would kill himself.Alexander Dumas

E

My mind is incapable of conceiving
such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it."Thomas Edison, "Do
We Live Again?"

I do not
believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority
behind it. Albert Einstein

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives
the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism. Albert Einstein

"From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course,
and have always been an atheist.... I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due
to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility
corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our being."

"Black
holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." - Stephen Hawking, NATURE, 1975

I believe that there is no
God, but that matter is God, and God is matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not.I believe also that the world was not made, but that the world made itself, or that it had no beginning,
and that it will last for ever.I believe that man is a beast; that the soul
is the body, and that the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.I believe that there is no religion, that natural religion is the only religion, and all religion is
unnatural.I believe not in Moses; I believe in the first philosophers.I believe not in the evangelists….

George Eliot (Mary Ann
Evans, 1819-1890) Westminster Review, October 1855 (The radical
publication founded by Jeremy Bentham 35 years before).

Let such a man become an evangelical
preacher; he will then find it possible to reconcile small ability with great ambition, superficial knowledge with the prestige
of erudition, a middling morale with a high reputation for sanctity.

Id.

Is God willing to prevent evil,
but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus

How it may be Lawful and Fitting
to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived

Bishop Eusebius (book 12,
chapter 32).

We shall introduce into this history
in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity.

Bishop Eusebius (Vol. 8, chapter
2)

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Prayers
never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the
enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas- W. C. Fields

Neither in my private life nor in
my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.Sigmund Freud, letter to Charles Singer

Religion is comparable to a childhood
neurosis.Sigmund Freud, "Future of an Illusion"

At the bottom God is nothing more
than an exalted father.Sigmund Freud

G

Those who are enslaved to
their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will never even stop to learn.Galen

To command the professors
of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they
do see, and not to understandwhat they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.Galileo Galilei, "The
Authority of Scripture in Philosophical Controversies

The Bible
tells you how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.

Galileo

I do not feel obliged to believe
that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.Galileo

H

Scientific education end religious educations are incompatible.The clergy have ceased to interfere with education at the advanced state, with which I am directly
concerned, but they have still got control of that of child­ren.This means
that children have to learn about Adam and Noah instead of Evolution; about David who killed Goliath, instead of Koch who
killed Cholera; about Christ’s ascent into heaven instead of Montgolfier’s and Wright’s.Worse than that, they are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which
leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods
of though which are successful in science.

J.B.S. Haldane

A man who
believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad. -Claude A. Helvetius (1715-1771)

I believe today that I am acting
in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work.

Adolph Hitler, Reichstag speech
in 1938

Catholics and Protestants are fighting
with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve."Adolph Hitler, Mein
Kampf, pp.309

"Any violence which does not
spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook."Adolph
Hitler, Mein Kampf p. 171

"What we have to fight for...is
the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by
the Creator."Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 125

"I am now as before a Catholic
and will always remain so"Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941

Malt’s done more than Milton
can,

To show God’s
way to man.—A.E. Housman

What to me is dark,
illumine

What is low raise
and support

That to the height
of this great argument

I may assert eternal
providence

And justify the ways
of God

Milton, Bk. I, Paradise
Lost

"...but I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of menare such common
phenomena, that I should rather believe the mostextraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admitof
so signal a violation of the laws of nature."An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume, 10:2:30

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, buteven
at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,
1748"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless thetestimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood
would be moremiraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."David Hume, "Of Miracles", from An Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding, 1748

"The many instances of forged miracles,
and prophecies, and supernaturalevents, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,or which
detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strongpropensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous,
and oughtreasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind."David Hume, "Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding" 1748

I

INGERSOLL, ROBERT G

“Salvation through slavery
is worthless; Salvation from slavery is inestimable.""The Gods", 1872

To argue with
a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.

The notion
that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience
merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance
called 'faith.'

If a man
would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings
of the New, he would be insane

Let us put theology
out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Theologians
beat the living with the bones of the dead

Religion
can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

The Inspiration
of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

The notion that
faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits
everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance
called 'faith.'

There can be
little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

The history
of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

Religion has
not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

A believer is
a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wings.

Ignorance is
the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

J

They [the
clergy] believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they beleive
rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson

I
have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity)
one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology." --Thomas Jefferson

K

JERRY KAHN

If God has created all things,
and He knows the consequences of its creation, it would be better for His reputation if He remains hidden.

If there is an intelligent creator
of things, then I wish he shared a bit more of that intelligence with humans.

Faith is the soil for growing
fantastic worlds.

I used to measure the heavens/now
I shall measure the shadows of the earth./Although my soul was from heaven,/the shadows of my body lies here.

Kepler, Johannes, epitaph, died
November 15th, 1630.

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If the liberties
of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.-General Marquis De Lafayette, 1789

I have
no need for that hypothesis.

Leplace.His reply when asked by Napoleon Bonaparte about Laplace’s 4 volume Celestial
Mechanics which lacked any reference to the “author” of the universe.

"It is quite unlawful to demand,
defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given
by nature to man."[Pope Leo XIII, "Great Encyclical Letters",16

"I find every sect, as far as reason
will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason."[John
Locke

"The poor wretches have convinced
themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under
his laws...they receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes
among them,he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple people."Lucian, Roman-Syrian writer & lecturer

"If God is all powerful, he
can do everything.He can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then
there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore an all powerful God does not exist."Lucretius, Roman
poet, Epicurean

Idiots,
the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these
infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads. Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader

Therefore be on your guard against
the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-­glory,
conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.

Martin Luther, The Lies of the Jews,
1543

...but then eject them [Jews] forever from this country. For,
as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while
sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!Luther, supra.

I brief, dear princes
and lords, those of you who have Jews under your rule­­ if my counsel does not please you, find better advice, so
that you and we all can be rid of the unbearable, devilish burden of the Jews, lest we become guilty sharers before God in
the lies, blasphemy, the defamation, and the curses which the mad Jews indulge in so freely and wantonly against the person
of our Lord Jesus Christ, this dear mother, all Christians, all authority, and ourselves. Do not grant them protection, safe
­conduct, or communion with us. . . .

Luther, Supra.

First to set fire
to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see
a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians,
and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians

Luther, supra.

Third, I advise that all their prayer
books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them. (remainder
omitted)Martin Luther, supra.

M

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow
than in the church.

Ferdinand Magellan, Cardiff, What Great Men
Think of Religion

I
count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. -Christopher Marlowe

I
count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. -Christopher Marlowe

A church
is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H. L. Mencken

Faith may
be defined as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

Giving
every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L Mencken

Imagine
the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.

H. L. Mencken

To sum
up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on
it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

H. L. Mencken

If religious belief be indeed so necessary
to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it
should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.J.S.
Mill, Three Essays on Religion, Utility of Religion, p. 71.

"The world would
be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most ditinguished even in popular estimation
for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion."John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) British philosopher, Autobiography.

The time appears to me to
have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known."John Stuart Mill

If there are any marks at all of special design in creation, one of the things most evidently designed
is that a large proportion of all animals should pass their existence in tormenting and devouring other animals.--John Stuart
Mill

What to me is dark, illumine

What is low raise and support

That to the height of this great argument

I may assert eternal providence

And justify the ways of God

Milton, Bk. I, Paradise Lost

Science
has proof without any certainty.Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley
Montague

N

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against
us thinkers-- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

Belief means
not wanting to know what is true."Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, 1889

O

P

The
Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.Thomas Paine, The Theological Works of

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals; but, however unwilling the partisan
of the Christian system may be to believe or acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true, that the age of ignorance commenced
with the Christian system.—There was more knowledge in the world before that period than for many centuries afterwards;
and as to religious knowledge, the Christian system, as already said, was only another species of mythology; and the mythology
to which it succeeded was a corruption of an ancient system of theism.

Thomas Paine—The age of Reason

The study
of Christian theology … is the study of nothing:it is founded on nothing;
it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no
conclusions

Thomas
Paine, The age of Reason

If you want to
know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."Dorothy Parker

Men
never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Belief
is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves
false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I
contend that we are both atheists.I just believe in one fewer god than you do.When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand
why I dismiss yours.

Sir
Stephen Henry Roberts.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else
on earth, more than ruin, more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought
is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not
afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.-Bertrand Russell

Most
people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.-Bertrand
Russell

S

God is dead. Let us not understand
by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have
anything but his cadaver. Perhaps heslipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man.Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.Sartre

An atheist is
a man who has no invisible means of support."Bishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)

There is no absurdity
so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly
repeating it with an air of great solemnity.Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion
is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful

Seneca
the Younger (4BCE-65CE)

The
fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a
sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.George
Bernard Shaw

"Science
is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition". - Adam Smith

"Who
knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say
that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb ..."

Socrates. Plato,
Gorgias 492e

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To suppress
this rumor, Nero fabricated scapegoats * and punished with every refinement the notoriously depraved Christians (as they were
popularly called). Their originator, Christ, had been executed in Tiberius* reign by the governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate. But in spite of the temporary
setback the deadly superstition had broken out afresh, not only in Judea (where the mischief had started) but even in Rome. All degraded and shameful practices collect and flourish in the capital.

Tacitus,
Annals of the Imperial Rome, ca 115 C.E.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes,
burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical absurd and primitive stories,
and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Mark Twain

Suppose
you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.-Mark Twain

A man is accepted into church for what
he believes--and turned out for what he knows. -Mark Twain

It is best to
read the weather forecast before praying for rain."Mark Twain

The
Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

Voltaire,
Philosophical Letters.

They
are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that

Voltaire,
Philosophical letters.

The
Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance
of social graces, but the raft of God.They believe it took a miracle to undo
them.

Voltaire,
Philosophical Letters.

The
Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery
over the Christians.

Voltaire—Philosophical
Letters

Atheism
is the vice of a few intelligent people.Voltaire

Religion
began when the first scoundrel met the first fool

Voltaire

If
god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.Let us worship god through
Jesus if we must.If ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still
be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage.Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror….

Voltaire

"Inspiration:
A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God...."Voltaire

"Superstition, born of paganism
and adopted by Judaism, invested the Christian Church from earliest times. All the fathers of the Church, without exception,
believed in the power of magic. TheChurch always condemned magic, but she always believed in it: she did not excommunicate
sorcerers as madmen who were mistaken, but as men who were really in communication with the devil."Voltaire, Philosophical
Dictionary, 1764

disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving one another.

Xenophanes,
The Greek Philosophers, Rex Warner, p. 24.

One
God, the greatest among gods and men, neither in form unto mortals nor in thoughts.... But without toil he swayeth all things
by thought of his mind

Xenophanes, Id. 25

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Trying to find
God is a good deal like looking for money one has lost in a dream."Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And
Other Essays

I think that God in creating
man somewhat over estimated his ability."Oscar Wilde

Remember, the
German people are the chosen of God. On me the German Emperor, the spirit of God has descended. I am His sword, His weapon,
and His vice-regent."Kaiser Wilhelm II, 4 August 1914

A cult is a religion with
no political power.Tom Wolfe

It is a farce
to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.Mary Wollstonecraft

I believe in
God, only I spell it Nature.Frank Lloyd Wright

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....Mortals deem
that gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes liketheirs, and force, and form...yes, and if oxen and horses or
lions had hands,and could paint with their hands, and produce works of art as men do, horseswould paint forms of gods
like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make theirbodies in the image of their several kinds....The Ethiopians make their
godsblack and snub-nosed; the Thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair."Xenophanes, 500BC

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Sayings, quips, anonymous:

1liners, anonymous

There is no fool like a religious fool

The believer is happy, the doubter wise

Moses saves, Jesus invests.

Two hands working can do
more than a thousand clasped in prayer."

Evolution is
both fact and theory; creationism is neither.

Jesus Christ: Imaginary Playmate
to Millions of Adults!

Nine out of ten priests who
have tried Camels, prefer young boys.

A zealot's stones will break
my bones, but gods will never hurt me.

Faith is to the human what
sand is to the ostrich"

It is your god.They're your rules.You go to hell.

If Jesus loves me, he’s
a faggot!

Why is space a vacuum?God sucks!

Man created God in his own
image.

A man without religion is
like a fish without a bicycle.

Theology:the method of philosophy used to dress up the absurd.

Faith:a term used by the gullible when pretending they’re not.

Pope:the fool with a tail.

Cardinal:a birdbrain leader of the flock.

Preacher:a birdbrain teacher of the flock.

Church:a birdhouse.

Religion is the work of the
devil.

You Go Yahweh - and I'll
go Mine!

Belief in heaven is impossible
in the absence of a greedy desire for it.

If god doesn't like the way
I live, let him tell me, not you.

Man - a creature
made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

In the
Jewish Bible, their god is more efficient than Adolph Hitler:he killed everyone
but Noah’s family.

Jesus loves
us like a parent a child, he wishes to control our comings and goings.

“Theology,”
the philosophical discourse of schizophrenic and fools.

“Heresy,”
a theological position other than the Church’s

Trinity,
a 3-for-1 sale in deities.

LONGER QUIPS ANOMYOUS

Since the Bible is mistaken
in telling us where we came from; how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?"

God hated the world so much
that he sent his only son so that whoever does not believe in him willperish and be denied eternal life.

Losing your faith is a lot
like losing your virginity; you don't realize how irritating it was 'til it's gone.

Jesus is real!I saw him at a party last week; he was playing darts with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny

Power corrupts;Absolute
power corrupts absolutely;God is all-powerful.Draw your own conclusions

Theists think all gods but
theirs are false.Atheists simply don't make an exception for the last one.

Philosophy contains questions
that may never be answered.Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

God so hated the world that
he sent his only son so that the vast majority of peoples of the world will because of their lack of faith endure eternal
damnation.—(JK)

The quest
for god is like a blind man in a dark room who is looking for a black cat that isn’t there.